Mastering Spring Cloud

Integration with service discovery

The gateway may be configured to create routes based on the list of services registered in service discovery. It can integrate with those solutions that have a DiscoveryClient compatible service registry, such as Netflix Eureka, Consul, or Zookeeper. To enable DiscoveryClient Route Definition Locator, you should set the spring.cloud.gateway.discovery.locator.enabled property to true and provide a DiscoveryClient implementation on the classpath. We use Eureka client and server for discovery. Notice that with the newest milestone version, Finchley.M5, of Spring Cloud all the Netflix's artifact's names have been changed and now it is, for example, spring-cloud-starter-netflix-eureka-client instead of spring-cloud-starter-eureka ...